ANGRY Elizabeth Aston says she feels let down by police after burglars and vandals targeted her Coventry home three times in less than a year.

The 57-year-old is upset that police did not come out to see her after a window was smashed in what she believes was an attempted break in at her house in Stoke Green on Friday night.

Miss Aston, who lives with her son Jack, aged 17, said: "To be perfectly honest I am appalled.

"I phoned the police and they gave me a crime number and took some details. They said they would pass it on to the right department and said someone would contact me in the week and they said I should just get it fixed.

"I took exception to this because we pay our rates, we pay our council tax.

"I went into the street on Saturday and found they had sent three police cars to a house nearby to an attempted burglary, and they didn't even bother to call in."

Miss Aston, who is on disability benefits as she suffers diabetes, depression and anxiety, said she did not blame individual officers.

She said: "Some of them are brilliant, but they are under-funded and under-staffed. But every time you ring up you get an answer-phone and nobody gets back to you - but I suppose they are run off their feet."

Miss Aston's house was burgled in March, and before that, in November.

A spokeswoman for West Midlands Police said: "It was a report of criminal damage as opposed to a crime in progress.

"We have finite resources and we have to prioritise ongoing incidents.

"This wasn't an ongoing incident, it was a report of criminal damage."